I've got the second generation Bamboo and I'm really happy with it. The black A5 one, pen & touch. I really do like the addition of the touch features. Combined with the pen it works great. Works well with 3D apps and paint /drawing apps.

The cool thing about it is that you can switch very quickly between touch and pen. The touch thing actually works quite well. With the gestures, you can scroll up/down and sideways, zoom, rotate. When browsing you can go back and forward between pages very quickly. When in a drawing application, you can use the pen for drawing, but touch for menus and such. Once you get the hand of it, it's great.

I can only recommend it. I don't even use a mouse anymore, everything with the bamboo. With my old tablet I used to switch a lot between mouse for regular work and pen for drawing. Somehow annoying. With the Bamboo touch & pen, that's something from the past now. No need to revert back to a mouse anymore, everything in one device.

Artwork and 3DToons items, create the perfect place for you toon and other figures!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722

Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk